under secretary, humanitarian coordinator hooshs had been waiting in beirut for days for a visa to go into syria. she finally left. it was clear syria was not going to give her a visa. nobel killing, butchering his people, also trying to prevent the community to respond. that doesn't mean we aren't responding. unfortunately in today's world there are a lot of conflict situations around the world, a lot of partners we've worked with conflict situations already so you can work with groups. wfp, others, a.i.d.s, office of foreign disaster assistance has a history of being able to work inside conflict areas through trusted partners to make sure our assistance is going to where it's directed but it's not easy. the big question is access and it goes back to senator menendez' question about the russians. this is one area the russians expressed a lot of concern as well as the humanitarian situation and we would like to see that russian concern that's stated on humanitarian to be translated into the type of pressure on the assad regime that helps ease these questions of access. >> thank you. a